Pakistan has seen an exponential growth in Covid-19 cases in the 100 days since the first case was confirmed. Here are some key markers of the global pandemic causing havoc in the country as the federal government bets on herd immunity as survival strategy. Tests Initially, Pakistan’s testing capacity was…

When the alleged rapist of seven-year-old Auz Noor was presented before a local magistrate, the 19-year-old termed the sexual assault an act of revenge. In the quiet town of Kaka Sahib in Nowshera District, Noor left her home for Madrassah on a Saturday afternoon. When she did not return home…

For a country lacking a functional public healthcare system, Pakistan reels with a threat of the novel coronavirus spread in the slums threatening increased local transmission. “It is very difficult for people to socially distance in areas like Karachi’s slums,” said World Health Organization Executive Director Dr Michael J Ryan…

With Pakistan confirming seven new novel coronavirus cases, the World Health Organisation has warned that the country faces great challenge ahead to contain the viral outbreak. The statement came at virtual press conference by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Executive Director Dr Michael J Ryan, and Technical lead Dr…

As the sun rises on the morning of October 10, celebrated as World Mental Health Day, kindling an international debate on this year’s theme “mental health in the workplace”, in Pakistan the society grows to discover the mental health, shedding decades-old stigma. But the conversation here spheres between indifference to…

In a society that often shuns perspectives of the “weaker sex”, social media is allowing these voices to be heard, stories to be shared. A closed group on Facebook is one such platform. “Soul Sisters Pakistan” has allowed women, holding different ideologies but living similar lives, to bond digitally over a dash of anonymous posts. With more than 34,000 members, the group had its third and largest meetup last weekend with over 500 women rushing to buy tickets.

Hailing from an under-privileged background in Karachi, Fazal and Mahmood, in all likelihood, should have ended up doing odd jobs even before finishing college. But faith is seldom bogged down by limitations of society. Studying at a prestigious university in Canada now, the story of these two Pakistani youngsters is…

The Global Liveability Report, 2017 has ranked Karachi as the world’s sixth worst city to live in for the second consecutive year. For a city plagued by incompetent governance, The Economist Intelligence Unit’s [EIU] Liveability Index will not surprise Karachiites. But it may raise questions on claims of an ‘improved’…

In what was arguably the upset of the century, Hillary Clinton wasby Donald Trump in the USpresidential electionslast year. Almost everyone was convinced that the greatest democracy in the world would, for the first time in its history, elect a woman as head of state. Pakistan — a long-term US…